This corporate structure seems a bit sketchy for creators if the platform wants to sell. If they sell Nebula then creators split half of the profits. If they sell Standard then creators get nothing.
The EV market is basically (1) Tesla, (2) a bunch of Chinese auto makers (BYD and ten others you’ve never heard of), (3) and every other well-known legacy auto maker.
BYD is giving Tesla some healthy competition.
Tesla is working on a $25k auto right now that should be available in 2026.
There isn’t much hope for legacy auto in the EV space. They’re too far behind and their costs for production are too high to remain profitable.
The Chinese auto makers have announced plans to open factories in Mexico which would give them easier access to North America under the USMCA.
Chinese manufacturers like BYD are opening plants in Mexico to get around the US protectionism against Chinese made cars. Blocking this would require serious changes to the USMCA.
Tesla has proven you don’t need a dealer network to sell cars in the United States.
The model Y is getting a revamp over the next few months. It will be interesting to see how many of the things in this article Tesla decides to change.
It is one thing to show ID. It is an other thing to show ID and have the details stored in a database in perpetuity by companies who don’t have huge budgets for data privacy and security.
Google mostly runs their own data centers. Amazon mostly rents space in commercial data centers with lots of different companies. Aws is probably pretty secure but likely less physically secure compared to Google if you get into the nitty gritty details.